Chapter 919: Clash
Sam's whistle echoed through the whole area and even the Solar fragments heard it.
At that exact moment, Sam's beasts came out of their hiding and he also ran out towards them, but before they reached, his shadows who are hiding at the outskirts of the valley appeared in different positions at the edge and they stabbed a medium sized metallic pole that was hidden between the rubble.
The Solar fragments are distracted by the undead who looked like one of their own, that is the reason they didn't check the surroundings. Anyway the whole plan started with a giant underestimation of Sam from the Solar fragments.
They are so sure that Sam wouldn't be able to find the valley and the Space tunnel. They thought that he would panic from the start from the sudden attacks the news from the major powers, everything else. Even underestimation was a major understatement.
At least for the scout batch, which came before the current batch, they didn't even bother giving the escape means, they are sure that Sam would be unaware of their entry point which led to the previous massacre.
Anyway, these pillars are similar to the ones that he used in destroying the city walls of the Kala tribe. As soon as the shadow stabbed them in the ground, the spiritual energy in the surroundings started vibrating and after the initial vibration, the spatial energy vibrated.
This is not to injure or attack the Solar fragments. It is to restrict them. They wouldn't work on the transference scroll.
This is Sam operating on the assumption that at least this batch would have some escape means as they might have considered their entry point being revealed.
And his guess is right, one of them used the transference scroll to escape, but as soon as he did that, the spatial energy vibrations that are coming from all sides collided with the energy emitting from the transference scrolls and he suffered the backlash of the collision.
His body fell on the floor with a lot of muscle tears and wounds as he bled out slowly.
Sam suddenly felt it was a pity that he revealed this function so early, if only he waited for them to use them together the impact would have been great.
But it was only a fleeting thought.
Sam and the beasts dove into the Central Valley with Raiju elder supervising the whole thing. If anything goes wrong, he will take over and sweep through the whole thing.
His first target is the not the leader in his weak moment, rather the Middle stage candidates. He took out both reaper and executioner swords as he clashed with them with partial light elemental fusion.
While the beasts took care of the Initial stage Initiation cultivators. They are all in middle stage just like him, so this is a bit of overkill.
The leader saw Sam's approach and ordered the Middle stage cultivators.
"Nine of you work as a team. From the looks of it he broke through to the middle-stage. If he is done the beasts will automatically back down. Be careful and always stay in the formation."
He spoke in a painful voice and sat down straight before closing his eyes and meditating. He started burning his blood. He knew that something entered his blood and it is failing his organs, he has his own thoughts on how to cure this situation and this is the most dangerous of them all.
He is burning his blood and for the heat his own blood would react differently as his bloodline is of fire. But the foreign blood and poison wouldn't react the same way. He can identify the foreign bodies and get rid of that blood forcefully.
He would be weakened after this, but at least he would stay alive.
While he is going through that painful procedure. Sam already started clashing with the nine Middle stage Initiation cultivators.
When Sam reached them, they surrounded him from all the sides and no matter which direction Sam moved, they made sure that they moved along with him to keep him in the center as they attacked with ranged attacks from their positions.
No matter how he moved, they are trying to keep their relative positions same and he was being attacked from all nine sides.
But that didn't last long, the golden flames are doing little damage to him and he is faster than them. He activated partial light element suddenly and zoomed towards the person in front of him.
His target moved backwards and the rest of the maintained their relative positions by moving at the same speed, but they are not fast enough.
Sam's sword reached the target and left a slash on his chest and when he was about to continue with a slash to the throat, he felt a large flaming inferno hit him in from all the sides.
The remaining eight locked on to him as they attacked simultaneously which threw him off the track.
He didn't receive too much damage but that doesn't mean he didn't receive any at all.
The more surprising thing is they managed to catch him even in his partial fusion form.
Before he could come back to himself, the nine opponents are back to their original position.
Sam did a slow rotation on the same spot to take a look at all of them, they are all keenly looking at him without batting their eyes and when Sam suddenly lunged towards an opponent, the opponent didn't dodge this time, he directly launched a jet of golden flames at Sam which the latter blocked with a swing of his sword.
But before he could land that sword blade on the target, the remaining eight managed to lock him down and threw their attacks.
This is a pretty annoying formation he must say. The nine opponents are good at aiming their ranged attacks and have perfect timing.
Even at his speed they managed to predict and lock his position at a certain time and attacked at the same time. If they attacked individually he might even be able to take it without so much as flinch, the combined attack is making him feel the heat.
The same thing happened for a few more times and Sam barely managed to land some slashes on the torso's of the opponents.
But he noticed that he is wasting his energy to defend against the constant attacks and knew that speed is not the answer for them, he might be able to win the fight eventually, but he would be in no condition to fight against the leader.
So, he changed his strategy.
When he lunged towards a target this time, he suddenly deactivated the partial light elemental fusion in the middle and the speed disappeared, he turned back into his normal speed which made the opponents to miss their target and before they managed to prepare for the next attack Sam disappeared into the shadow and reappeared right before the target in front of him. He is just an inch away from him as both of them looked into each other's eyes.
Sam stabbed the two swords into the opponents bodies from the rear and he locked the body in place before turning around along with it.
The rest of the opponents threw an attack at him, but he stepped back as much as he can and let the dead body take the attacks for him.
When the body started burning he made the undead out of it and let it loose in the middle of the formation.
That is the beauty of the Solar fragment's body. Even the dead body can endure a bit of heat, if it was an ordinary dead body, then it would have already been turned to ashes and even the bones would have been gone.
Once the formation broke, Sam let himself loose. He used partial shadow elemental fusion and disappeared in a puff of black smoke before reappearing near the one guy who is dealing with the crazy undead that was coming at him.
He slashed his swords. One of them missed and the other slashed the hand off of the target.
He landed and disappeared from the spot once again, before reappearing out of the formation.
The opponents became angry and they also activated their elemental fusions. Unlike Sam, they went with full fusion and all of them turned into mass of golden flames.
The eight streaks of golden flames and black shadow clashed repeatedly in the spot and Sam was on the back foot once again.
Even in his shadow form they are catching on to him and the golden flames are slowly accumulating damage on his body.
Before he could decide to change his form and fight in a different way, he was caught by one of them with a direct attack and fell on the floor and before he could disappear, they surrounded him and used their full strength to incinerate him with golden flames.
Sam bathed in golden flames as they washed him down completely from all sides, he couldn't see anything except for those flames.
The incineration went on for a few minutes straight and when it was gone, they thought they would see a corpse of Sam, but instead they saw a mass of golden flames, leisurely laying on the ground.
"I wanted to save this form for the last. But you guys are good."
Sam also activated full fire elemental fusion and he also turned into a streak of golden flames. Now the eight streaks are clashing with one.
This became like nasty melee combat and Sam started using void style and the first punch landed on the target already confirmed to the opponents that they are in trouble.